hell in disguise

The night in the fishing village is extremely quiet, but it is also more humid and colder than that in the inland area. Tan Yangzi lay on the low couch in the side room of the village chief's house, looking at the mottled beams above his head with his eyes open, listening to the slow waves of the waves not far away. Scrubbing.

Yan Fei was lying on the bed, listening to his breathing, probably not asleep yet.

"Master..."

"Ok?"

"Can I lie down with you?"

"..."

"I promise to just lie down!"

Tan Yangzi rolled his eyes irritably, and said, "The couch is uncomfortable. Is there something wrong with having to squeeze in while the bed is not sleeping?"

"Master, I'm cold."

With a long sigh, Tan Yangzi moved to the side, "Come here."

Yan Fei immediately jumped out of bed and rushed to Tan Yangzi's couch like an arrow.His feet were bare, like cold jade, they stuck to Tan Yangzi's calf all of a sudden, so cold that Tan Yangzi also shivered. "Why are your feet as cold as ice!" Tan Yangzi scolded in disgust.

Yan Fei looked sideways at Master, and said with a smile, "I said I was cold."

Tan Yangzi pulled the quilt to cover both of them tightly, then reached out and shook Yan Fei's hand, feeling that his hand was also very cold.He clasped Yan Fei's hands with both hands, and rubbed them vigorously under the quilt a few times before he felt that his hands were steaming.

"I don't know who came out of the ice hell." Tan Yangzi muttered.

Of course, Yan Fei would not tell Master that he deliberately exposed his hands and feet outside the quilt just now, and ran over because of the cold.Under the quilt, he showed a smirk of success, buried his head in Master's chest, put his arms around Master's waist, and then let out a cat-like sigh of satisfaction, and closed his eyes.

And Tan Yangzi didn't feel any strange being held by Yan Fei like this, instead he still had a long-lost, complete feeling.Looking at Yan Fei's sleeping innocent face like a baby, he felt that his heart, which had been mutilated after countless years of countless ups and downs, became full and warm.He closed his eyes and fell asleep unconsciously.

But after sleeping for less than two hours, he suddenly woke up from the dream.In these years, he has rarely been able to sleep a full night, and many of the countless reincarnations in his dreams that he thought he had forgotten were actually just scenes that were pressed deep in his memory.The emotions in the dream are intense, but once awakened, they are quickly forgotten like quicksand between the fingers.I don't remember which life he returned to just now, the only remaining feeling is hatred, the hatred that is so deep that he wants to destroy everything.This hatred made him unable to be completely calm even when he woke up, his breathing was short and his heart was beating like a drum.

More and more often, he felt this crushing anger and hatred, this feeling that seemed to be maddening.Presumably in his real previous life, the doctor named Qin Sang, the last thing he felt was this kind of hatred that wanted to drag everything to hell.

Now, the madness of these dreams could not affect his waking state.But this kind of dream has become more and more frequent in the past 100 years, and now it occurs almost every night, which is still disturbing.He knew that he was in the same situation as many green and red impermanences that had passed away, because he experienced too much suffering and saw too much evil in every reincarnation, so he went crazy step by step.

The situation seems to have improved a little over the past ten years, probably because Yan Fei helped him to restrain this mental deterioration to some extent?Thinking of this, he looked down at Yan Fei who was still clinging to him tightly.

However, he found that Yan Fei was looking at him silently with his bright eyes open in the dark.

Tan Yangzi was taken aback, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

Yan Fei suddenly stretched out his hand and wiped the sweat from Tan Yangzi's forehead, "Master, are you having nightmares again?"

Tan Yangzi felt a little embarrassed for a moment, sat up a little and said, "It's okay, it's just a dream."

Yan Fei also sat up, his bright eyes clearly filled with distress, "Master, if you believe me, I'll use the Dream Conjuring Technique for you."

Tan Yangzi was taken aback.

Yan Fei smiled slightly and said, "I can't erase those bad memories of Master, but I can weave many, many new dreams for you. There are no painful dreams."

Yan Fei's words made Tan Yangzi feel a slight pain in his chest for some reason.An inexplicable strange feeling of being understood and pitied made him speechless for a moment.After a while, he nodded and said, "I believe in you."

So Yan Fei lightly pressed his shoulders to make him lie down, raised the soul-inducing bell and rang it, the bell rang like ripples, Yan Fei smiled at him, his handsome face in the night became more and more like an elf under the moon Confused.Yan Fei recited the mantra, and his gently undulating tone was as melodious as a song. Accompanied by the bursts of ringing bells, troubled waves rolled up and washed up layer by layer, gradually submerging him.

He really slept peacefully that night.In the dream, he and Yan Fei seemed to be sitting among the flowers on the other side, watching quietly the paper boats with candles going down the river of forgetting in the distance, the warm wind was blowing on their faces, quietly The earth does not speak, does not need to worry about the future, and does not need to dwell on the past.

In the early morning, they and the three young fishermen boarded the largest fishing boat in the village.The village chief's son, Liu Xi, is the helmsman, and the other two youths are Liu Xiaosi and Xu Quanshan, both of whom have relatives missing at sea, so they are willing to take the risk.Tan Yangzi and Yan Fei followed the three of them to pay homage to the Guanyin who guarded the boat and the Dragon Lord at the stern, and listened to the long and desolate singing of the fishermen, and gradually sailed towards the direction of the rising sun.

On the first day, it was business as usual.The three fishermen seemed to relax a little too, and cooked a sumptuous dinner for the two guests.After a day, Yan Fei became acquainted with those three people a lot. Liu Xi asked Yan Fei, "Your master is a Taoist priest, why aren't you a Taoist priest?"

"I practice with hair." Yan Fei said with an expression of "you don't understand this".

Tan Yangzi glanced at him.

"Cultivation with hair, I think you are a female doll disguised as a man! Hahahaha!" Another Xu Quanshan deliberately made a fool of himself while drinking.A flash of anger flashed in Yan Fei's eyes, and then he suddenly smiled evilly, stood up and hooked his fingers at Xu Quanshan, "Let's go pee|pee together and compare whose bird|bird is bigger, dare you?"

Tan Yangzi spat out the water he had just drunk, "Yan Fei! Don't make trouble!"

However, the other two people had already started booing, and Xu Quanshan was also provocatively excited, and suddenly stood up, "Come, come, are you still afraid of your little boy? I will call you father if you lose!"

So the two of them walked towards the stern.Liu Xi and Liu Xiaosi behind were whistling and making strange noises.For some reason, Tan Yangzi felt uncomfortable and his face was quite dark.Then Liu Xi thought he was angry with his apprentice for being too restless, so he persuaded, "Young people are playing around, don't be angry, Daoist. We all grew up compared to that guy when we were young."

After a while, the two came back one after the other.Walking in front was Xu Quanshan, whose face was so dark that ink dripped out.But Yan Fei at the back had a smug look on his face.Liu Xi and Liu Xiaosi knew who had won at a glance. They laughed so hard that they pushed Xu Quanshan who had just sat down, "Oh, how is it? Is she a girl or a man?"

Yan Fei also sat down next to Master, looked at Liu Quanshan, pointed to his nose and asked, "What should I call me?"

"..." Xu Quanshan held back for a long time, then suddenly cursed, and then shouted at Yan Fei, "Father!"

Yan Fei: "Hey, good boy!"

Liu Xi and the two were already laughing so hard that they couldn't breathe, pointing to Liu Quanshan and said, "You also have today."

And Tan Yangzi didn't feel angry when he saw Yan Fei's complacent expression, he just shook his head.At this time, Yan Fei leaned over and asked, "Master, I won!"

Tan Yangzi rolled his eyes at him, "What is there to be proud of?"

"It's not because Master raised me well that I developed so well!" Yan Fei suddenly leaned into his ear and said in a low voice.

After hearing this, Tan Yangzi only felt blood in his ears, and his face began to heat up again.Why did this stinky boy become more and more sloppy, "Naughty beast! You still dare to make fun of Master?" After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and slapped Yan Fei on the back of the head.

On the second day, it was still calm.The weather is very good, and you can occasionally see the shadows of fish schools passing by in the sea.Liu Xi sighed, it would be great if he brought enough fishing gear this time, maybe he would pull a net back by the way.

When the third day came, the three of them said that maybe the ghost knew that there was an expert present, so they didn't plan to come.And Tan Yangzi looked at the beautiful but unchanging sea, feeling a little restless in his heart.

It is true that some ghosts can sense the existence of impermanence and will deliberately avoid it.If it hides, it will be even more difficult to find.

Just as they were about to return to the voyage, Yan Fei suddenly noticed that Liu Xi on the cockpit suddenly stopped moving, and his eyes were looking at a certain direction in the distance.

"Hey! Liu Xi! What's wrong!" Yan Fei shouted.

Liu Xi stretched out his hand and pointed to the distant sea, his voice was a little unsteady, "There... there seems to be something..."

Yan Fei and Tan Yangzi rushed to the bow of the boat and looked forward.On the sea in the distance, there seems to be a black spot floating non-stop.At the same time, Tan Yangzi felt a slight tremor in his body, which was an intuition he would have when he was close to the target.

Moreover, the sea breeze blowing on the face also carried a faint smell of corpses that ordinary humans could not smell.

Liu Xiaosi also ran to the bow of the boat, swallowed his saliva, and his expression was a little grim, "No...it can't be the ghost you mentioned, right?"

The boat gradually got closer, and the black dot became more and more clear.The tattered cloth strips fluttered non-stop, and the frighteningly thin black hair swayed like seaweed.Liu Xiaosi's face became increasingly ugly, "It's...it's a floating corpse!"

Tan Yangzi and Yan Fei did not inform the villagers about the corpse in Jiang Yu's dream, so they did not know that the disappearance of those people was related to the corpse.Xu Quanshan got off the anchor and ran over with Liu Xi.When Liu Xi saw it, he scratched his hair impatiently, "What should I do? According to the rules, it must be done."

Liu Xiaosi's voice trembled, "There's nothing in the sea, why did a corpse come out for no reason? Daoist, should we fish it?"

Tan Yangzi looked at the corpse with cold eyes.Looking at this corpse, it has obviously been dead for more than a day, and it can't be used anymore. How could a ghost be attached to it?He and Yan Fei looked at each other, then took out the Life-Suppressing Talisman from his arms and said, "You three go to the cabin, don't come out yet."